Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
Ken Gierke is a transplanted Western New Yorker, moving in retirement to mid-Missouri in 2012. His poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, and his first poetry collection, Glass Awash, was published by Spartan Press in 2022.
By Ken Gierke
Published: 2025
Written on the fly, dictated into his phone in real time while traveling, Gierke finds the aesthetic center of each song and composer. I highly recommend this collection to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of how music shapes our perceptions as we travel.
—Rick Christiansen, Bone Fragments (Spartan Press 2024)
These are musings of an open-road samurai, armed with unleaded gasoline and a well-curated playlist.
—Timothy Tarkelly, The You We Know and Love
Written to the beats of his eclectic playlist, the beat goes on: not some a ‘long strange trip’, but an inspired collection!
—Sharon SingingMoon, Random Seed